File:Bernhard Otto Holtermann with 630lb gold from Hill End.jpg

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Description	English: Bernard Otto Holtermann with the world's largest "nugget" of gold, North Sydney, 1874-1876, albumen print from composite photographic negative, Charles Bayliss & Beaufoy Merlin (attributed), State Library of New South Wales P1/766
Date	between 1874 and 1876 date QS:P,+1874-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1874-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1876-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source	State Library of New South Wales P1/766
Author	Charles Bayliss & Beaufoy Merlin (attributed)

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	03:15, 11 October 2020	1,488 × 2,048 (635 KB)	Eothan	Larger version direct from SLNSW catalogue, maintains original colours of album prints
	03:13, 25 April 2014	718 × 941 (516 KB)	Usfa	Better version - using copy from original glass plate source
	05:12, 29 October 2005	665 × 874 (194 KB)	Roke~commonswiki	German prospector, Bernhard Otto Holtermann with a mass of nearly all solid gold, from w:Hill End, New South Wales, weighed 630lb & valued at 12,000 pounds. Australian history {{PD-Australia}}

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